FEVER HOUSE by Keith Rosson Available for Preorder

MidWorld Press’s newest release is Fever House by Keith Rosson, one of the more heavily praised horror novels of recent years.

We have a not-huge number of copies en route to us. As usual, we expect a great production from MidWorld.

About the Book:

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutch’s tail, more of the city’s residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster….

But it’s all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband—suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutch’s boss.

When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they’ve built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead—secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity’s survival.

Can you resist the hand?

Includes a Foreword written by Chuck Wendig (Calamities, The Book of Accidents, Wayward, Black River Orchard, Wanderers) for this limited edition. 

New dust jacket and interior artwork by Samuel Araya. Dust jacket is double-sided with artwork and graphics on one side and artwork-only on the other side. 

 

The specifications for this edition:

• Artist Samuel Araya has created new dust jacket artwork, an illustrated limitation page, and four interior illustrations, all in full color.
• Printed offset in Black on 70# Finch Opaque Vanilla—Natural acid-free paper.
• Binding: Hardcover, Smyth Sewn, with one-color foil stamping and embossing on the front and rear bookboard with one-color foil stamping on the spine, along with head and footbands.
• Cover: Skivertex—Ubonga 5350.
• Endsheet - 80# Rainbow Saffron color with Swirl embossing
• Dust jacket (95# Litho Label)—Double Sided, one side with text, one side with artwork only.
• Illustrated limitation page is signed by the author.
• Cover will have the limitation number printed on it.
• 440 pages.
• Limited to 350 copies. 

From Publishers Weekly:

“In this stellar supernatural thriller, Rosson (Road Seven) makes suspending disbelief easy by creating plausible, multidimensional characters who just happen to get caught up in the chaos surrounding a dangerous relic.”

From Library Journal:

“Rosson’s (Road Seven) wildly imaginative new novel is a thrill-a-minute joyride that will keep readers guessing up to the final page. The story follows a cast of characters as they fling themselves after their own infernal goals and features cursed body parts, a washed-up rock star, brutal gangsters, even more brutal wetworks agents, mysterious deaths, and a surprisingly fresh take on a zombie apocalypse.”

From Kirkus:

“The mythology is a bit overstuffed, à la John Wick, but Rosson wields the tropes and trappings of horror nimbly, balancing nicely between familial devotion, big-screen apocalyptic visions, and full-throated splatterpunk… Angels and ministers of grace don't have a chance in hell against this nasty, fun-to-read indulgence.”